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"I think I am the only woman in the world who did not get introduced to Tom Waits by an evil ex." -- vito_excalibur, 2008-03-28

"I think I am the only woman in the world who did not get introduced to Tom Waits by an evil ex." -- vito_excalibur, 2008-03-28

Another achy, headachy day. Bleah. Bit of excitement last night ... heard sirens, heard them stop nearby instead of trailing off into the distance, grabbed a long lens and went to the window to look for smoke and estimate how many blocks away it was ... and saw this when I opened the window:

(The camera didn't capture the full effect of black smoke against a night sky, of course, but this still gives an idea.)

At first I feared that either the church on the corner or the vacant house at the end of my row was burning, though I did wonder a bit at not seeing more fire engines. I threw on some clothes, went out on the sidewalk, and found a car-b-cue just around the corner.

Other than some photo editing and chasing a fly around with a camera (fortunately, Perrine declined to tell me how silly I looked), I haven't done much today. Lack the attention/coherence to get into tricky sysadmin stuff, important decisions, figuring out how I managed to wind up overdrawn with a debit card (shouldn't the transaction in question simply have been refused? -- more importantly, where was my miscalculation or record-keeping glitch that got me there?), or arguing with beaurocrats. I want my brain back. ("Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.")

More photos to post and/or link to later, but not much verbal data to add except for more whining about pain.

Another achy, headachy day. Bleah. Bit of excitement last night ... heard sirens, heard them stop nearby instead of trailing off into the distance, grabbed a long lens and went to the window to look for smoke and estimate how many blocks away it was ... and saw this when I opened the window:

(The camera didn't capture the full effect of black smoke against a night sky, of course, but this still gives an idea.)

At first I feared that either the church on the corner or the vacant house at the end of my row was burning, though I did wonder a bit at not seeing more fire engines. I threw on some clothes, went out on the sidewalk, and found a car-b-cue just around the corner.

Other than some photo editing and chasing a fly around with a camera (fortunately, Perrine declined to tell me how silly I looked), I haven't done much today. Lack the attention/coherence to get into tricky sysadmin stuff, important decisions, figuring out how I managed to wind up overdrawn with a debit card (shouldn't the transaction in question simply have been refused? -- more importantly, where was my miscalculation or record-keeping glitch that got me there?), or arguing with beaurocrats. I want my brain back. ("Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.")

More photos to post and/or link to later, but not much verbal data to add except for more whining about pain.